[nodejs/node] 2022-04-19, Version 18.0.0 (Current) (PR #42262)

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<sub>*_This is just an early draft proposal to enable test builds and will be updated weekly._</sub> - **Release date**: 2022-04-19 - **Release content freeze**: 2022-04-12 * <sub>[We no longer have a strict semver-major cut-off](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/40816). The proposal content will be in sync with `master` until 2022-04-12. </sub> ---- ## 2022-04-19, Version 18.0.0 (Current) ### Notable Changes #### Deprecations and Removals * \[[`60b8e79599`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/60b8e79599)] - **(SEMVER-MAJOR)** **process**: runtime deprecate multipleResolves (Benjamin Gruenbaum) [#41896](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/41896) #### fetch * \[[`4944ad0b9e`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/4944ad0b9e)] - **(SEMVER-MAJOR)** **lib**: enable fetch by default (Michaël Zasso) [#41811](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/41811) #### Other Notable Changes * TBD ### Semver-Major Commits * \[[`dab8ab2837`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/dab8ab2837)] - **(SEMVER-MAJOR)** **assert,util**: compare RegExp.lastIndex while using deep equal checks (Ruben Bridgewater) [#41020](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/41020) * \[[`cea76dbf33`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/cea76dbf33)] - **(SEMVER-MAJOR)** **buffer**: expose Blob as a global (James M Snell) [#41270](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/41270) * \[[`99c18f4786`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/99c18f4786)] - **(SEMVER-MAJOR)** **buffer**: graduate Blob from experimental (James M Snell) [#41270](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/41270) * \[[`26c973d4b3`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/26c973d4b3)] - **(SEMVER-MAJOR)** **child\_process**: improve argument validation (Rich Trott) [#41305](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/41305) * \[[`38007df999`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/38007df999)] - **(SEMVER-MAJOR)** **cluster**: make `kill` to be just `process.kill` (Bar Admoni) [#34312](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/34312) * \[[`563b2ed000`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/563b2ed000)] - **(SEMVER-MAJOR)** **crypto**: use RFC2253 format in PrintGeneralName (Tobias Nießen) [#42002](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/42002) * \[[`18365d8ee6`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/18365d8ee6)] - **(SEMVER-MAJOR)** **crypto**: change default check(Host|Email) behavior (Tobias Nießen) [#41600](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/41600) * \[[`974ab4060f`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/974ab4060f)] - **(SEMVER-MAJOR)** **deps**: update V8 to 9.8.177.9 (Michaël Zasso) [#41610](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/41610) * \[[`270253c4e2`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/270253c4e2)] - **(SEMVER-MAJOR)** **deps**: update V8 to 9.7.106.18 (Michaël Zasso) [#40907](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/40907) * \[[`4944ad0b9e`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/4944ad0b9e)] - **(SEMVER-MAJOR)** **lib**: enable fetch by default (Michaël Zasso) [#41811](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/41811) * \[[`8c4b8b201a`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/8c4b8b201a)] - **(SEMVER-MAJOR)** **lib**: replace validator and error (Mohammed Keyvanzadeh) [#41678](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/41678) * \[[`60b8e79599`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/60b8e79599)] - **(SEMVER-MAJOR)** **process**: runtime deprecate multipleResolves (Benjamin Gruenbaum) [#41896](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/41896) * \[[`9fb7ac3bbd`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/9fb7ac3bbd)] - **(SEMVER-MAJOR)** **stream**: need to cleanup event listeners if last stream is readable (Xuguang Mei) [#41954](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/41954) * \[[`ceaa299958`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/ceaa299958)] - **(SEMVER-MAJOR)** **stream**: revert revert `map` spec compliance (Benjamin Gruenbaum) [#41933](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/41933) * \[[`fe7ca085a7`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/fe7ca085a7)] - **(SEMVER-MAJOR)** **stream**: throw invalid arg type from End Of Stream (Jithil P Ponnan) [#41766](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/41766) * \[[`48e784043d`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/48e784043d)] - **(SEMVER-MAJOR)** **stream**: don't emit finish after destroy (Robert Nagy) [#40852](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/40852) * \[[`f2170253b6`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/f2170253b6)] - **(SEMVER-MAJOR)** **stream**: add errored and closed props (Robert Nagy) [#40696](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/40696) * \[[`65910c0d6c`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/65910c0d6c)] - **(SEMVER-MAJOR)** **tls**: represent registeredID numerically always (Tobias Nießen) [#41561](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/41561) * \[[`807c7e14f4`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/807c7e14f4)] - **(SEMVER-MAJOR)** **tls**: move tls.parseCertString to end-of-life (Tobias Nießen) [#41479](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/41479) * \[[`74b9baa426`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/74b9baa426)] - **(SEMVER-MAJOR)** **v8**: make writeHeapSnapshot throw if fopen fails (Antonio Román) [#41373](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/41373) * \[[`ce4d3adf50`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/ce4d3adf50)] - **(SEMVER-MAJOR)** **worker**: expose BroadcastChannel as a global (James M Snell) [#41271](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/41271) * \[[`6486a304d3`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/6486a304d3)] - **(SEMVER-MAJOR)** **worker**: graduate BroadcastChannel to supported (James M Snell) [#41271](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/41271) ### Semver-Minor Commits * TBD ### Semver-Patch Commits * TBD